«Se il savio uomo debba prender moglie». Boccaccio e la questione matrimoniale nel XIV e XV secolo

Article | Contributor(s): Marcello Sabbatino

La contesa tra Venere celeste e Venere terrena, tra l’amore onesto e coniugale, che regola la comunità, e l’amore dilettevole e extraconiugale, che è fonte inesauribile di valore guerriero e di virtù cavalleresche nella società cortese, affascina il Boccaccio durante il soggiorno nella Napoli...

Irredentist Propaganda “Baedeker Style:” Anna Franchi’s and Willy Dias’ Nationalist Geographical Fantasy

Article | Contributor(s): Cristina Gragnani

This article analyzes how Anna Franchi and Willy Dias (Fortuna Morpurgo) utilized the language of tourism in their irredentist writings during the first two years of World War I. I look at how they adopted specific features of travel guidebooks to create a nationalistic geographical fantasy. I...

“La parola «rammendare».” Natalia Ginzburg’s Gemeinschaft

Article | Contributor(s): Mimmo Cangiano

My article has a dual purpose: on the one hand I will discuss the concept of social community that emerges from the public activity of Ginzburg. I will look at the political practice that Ginzburg sketched out, clarifying how this would become that “politica della memoria” aimed at defending and...

Albino, la scrittura, la nevrosi. Ipotesi in margine all’eziologia nevrotica in Memoriale di Paolo Volponi

Article | Contributor(s): Maurizio Masi

Il seguente articolo intende valutare più approfonditamente alcune ipotesi sull’eziologia della nevrosi in Memoriale di Paolo Volponi, partendo proprio dall’originaria definizione di questa fornitaci da Freud. Spesso l’interpretazione del testo è rimasta troppo confinata ad un’esclusiva lettura...

The Trauma of “Fear-Induced Exodus:” The Case of Victor Magiar and the Italian Jews of Libya

Article | Contributor(s): Rosario Pollicino

The Italian/Italophone Jewish community is amongst those that suffered from the Holocaust and other traumas. Drawing on the work of thinkers of trauma theory such as Dori Laub and Cathy Caruth, this paper aims to add to the current discourse on literary production by Italian/Italophone Jews by...

The Evolution of the Garden-Myth? Tales from Eden, Boccaccio, and Fellini

Article | Contributor(s): Anthony Cristiano

The Garden of Eden narrative has been woven, in one form or another in several literary traditions, particularly those of the Western world. The symbolic and socio-cultural significance of the ancient account have continued to inform gender relations, as well as those with the numinous, and/or...

Plurilingualism and Language Contact in Friuli Venezia Giulia: The State of the Research

Article | Contributor(s): Fabiana Fusco

As a crossroads between Eastern and Western Europe, throughout its history Friuli Venezia Giulia has always been a strategic political and economic site and has had several rulers (German patriarchs, Venetians, etc.). Consequently, the language of the ruling classes usually differed from that of...

Burchiello. The Poetry of Burchiello: Deep-fried Nouns, Hunchbacked Pumpkins, and Other Nonsense. Translation, introduction, and notes by Fabian Alfie and Aileen A. Feng.

Article | Contributor(s): Sherry Roush

Alessandro Giardino, ed. Corporeality and Performativity in Baroque Naples. The Body of Naples

Article | Contributor(s): Nicla Riverso

Margherita Costa. The Buffoons, A Ridiculous Comedy. A Bilingual Edition. Edited and translated by Sara E. Díaz and Jessica Goethals.

Article | Contributor(s): Patrizia Bettela

Simona Cigliana. Due secoli di fantasmi. Case infestate, tavoli giranti, apparizioni, spiritisti, magnetizzatori e medium

Article | Contributor(s): Mauro Ruggiero

Julius Evola. Teoria e pratica dell’arte d’avanguardia. A c. di Gianfranco De Turris.

Article | Contributor(s): Simona Cigliana

Serenella Iovino, Enrico Cesaretti, and Elena Past, eds. Italy and the Environmental Humanities: Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies

Article | Contributor(s): Nattapol Ruangsri

Silvia Ross, Nicoletta Mandolini e Marina Bettaglio, a cura di. Rappresentare la violenza di genere: sguardi femministi tra critica, attivismo e scrittura

Article | Contributor(s): Stefania Lucamante

Áine O’Healy. Migrant Anxieties: Italian Cinema in a Transnational Frame

Article | Contributor(s): Daniele Laudadio

Paola Breda and Marino Toppan. Land of Triumph and Tragedy: Voices of the Italian Fallen Workers: A Century of Italian Immigration to Canada: Immigrants Who Made it and Those Who Perished Trying

Article | Contributor(s): Matteo Brera

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Article | Contributor(s): Sandra Parmegiani

Changing the Sex of Cats: Considerations on Tale Type ATU 545, “The Cat as Helper, or, Puss in Boots” between Italy and France

Article | Contributor(s): Cristina Mazzoni

When Charles Perrault adapted his French “Puss in Boots” from earlier Italian versions by Giovan Francesco Straparola and Giambattista Basile, he made his feline protagonist a male. The cat, however, was grammatically gendered as feminine in the Italian versions, and several critics have...

Sorciers et philosophes : la duplicité des Gitans dans le théâtre italien de la Renaissance

Article | Contributor(s): Matteo Leta

This article examines the depiction of Gypsies in sixteenth-century Italian theatre. By staging Gypsies, dramatists consciously and unconsciously reflected contemporary attitudes and biases towards this itinerant foreign population. They also exposed their own insecurities : while portraying...

Destouches e Goldoni tra nobildonne, arcadi e liberi muratori. Percorsi della riforma del teatro comico italiano del Settecento

Article | Contributor(s): Gianni Cicali